Why not just buy things straight from the item search counter?

[Naylia]

Instead, why not make the wards themselves more useful. Open-air outdoor wards that allow you to rent or buy a stand. Allow you improve your stand. Use it for taking orders on goods. Have quests that earn you storage at your stand. Have quests that get you crafting support at your stand. Let's expand the functionality and immersion in the game rather then reduce it to a couple pop-up dialogs.

[Rentahamster]

Let's expand the functionality and immersion in the game rather then reduce it to a couple pop-up dialogs.

This would be nice in theory but....

This game is bad and they don't have much time to fix it. They need to implement fixes that will improve functionality and stability in the least amount of time possible. Save time, put the wards into a menu interface, this solves the crashing and the difficulty of and time consuming nature of purchasing items.

Use the time saved to tackle bigger problems like the battle system and lack of content.

Once that's done, come back and rework market wards into something really cool.

[Enthy]

I actually like going to the retainers rather than straight buying an item from a menu. It gives me the opportunity to look at other items in their bazaar that I may also be interested in buying.

Then you get to walk back to the door to check the price on the other items in that bazaar and then you get to walk back to the same retainer if the price is actually the best deal. how fun......

[BlaiseLallaise]

Then you get to walk back to the door to check the price on the other items in that bazaar and then you get to walk back to the same retainer if the price is actually the best deal. how fun......

I's called an "impulse purchase" and only the cheapest and most frugal amongst us would bother to go back to the door and check the price to see if it's lowest when we see one in front of us at a price we find reasonable. And in a game where we have gil coming out the nose, we can afford to be a little less cheap.

[JackDaniels]

Today I needed one cotton fent, one velveteen fent, and one canvas fent, I had to go to the battle ward, chigureons ward, and clothiers ward to get the lowest prices for each fent ontop of having to run to and use the search counter twice ontop of the first time when entering the wards (I cant see what other items an individual who is selling something i'm looking for has for sale, which in turn could saved me one or two zonings). What would have taken me less two minutes took me ten minutes of using the item search counter, zoning to various wards and running to these NPCs. The worst is when you search for an item, go to the respective ward and realise the retainer you are looking for is in another ward and that you should have looked more carefully to see which ward it was really in, ontop of that to add insult to injury you have to use the search counter again to find the right ward. Another thing that is really annoying is that when you are searching for an item and you finally see it in the wards only to find out some d-bag only put it up solely because they ran out of inventory space, or are trying to show something off, and set it for 99,999,999 gil.

Over-glorified AH is over-glorified

[Enthy]

The worst is when you search for an item, go to the respective ward and realise the retainer you are looking for is in another ward and that you should have looked more carefully to see which ward it was really in, ontop of that to add insult to injury you have to use the search counter again to find the right ward.

Hate when this happens @_@

[Jinko]

The worst is when you search for an item, go to the respective ward and realise the retainer you are looking for is in another ward and that you should have looked more carefully to see which ward it was really in, ontop of that to add insult to injury you have to use the search counter again to find the right ward.

I do this all the time and agree its damn annoying.

[AlexiaKidd]

I would like it if they kept the wards but expanded them to include buying straight from item list but maybe add an extra 5% delivery tax to encourage you to actually go into the ward to pick the item up.

They also need more filter options and a better layout of the item search lists. Filters for thing like rank, class and so on then sort them in order high to low and so on.

Also show +1, +2 +3 items in the search list and so on.

I don't want a price history as RMT's can abuse it like they did in FFXI. I like being able to see what people are charging and if there is none in stock you sell the item for what you think it is worth and then if people think thats a good price they will buy it.

I also want them to add an Item Seek Search so I can have look and see what Items people are looking for and sell them if I have them. I also want my retainers to be able to Seek items that I currently don't have. It seems silly that you can only seek items that you already have as most of the time you wouldn't be able seeking them if you had them.

[Nakiamiie]

Because the informed masses some people voted for AUCTION HOUSE instead of "wasting spending their time on the Marketplace" when the fix replacement is this simple. And SE listens, since communication makes the game so much better.

I like shopping in the Market Wards, it would be a shame to see them disappear. However, I agree that some people just don't enjoy the Market Wards and it's ok. So, for them there could effectively be an option to buy directly at the search counter (make an actual search counter that looks like an auction house counter, if it what it takes) and have the item delivered in their pocket.... for a price (5% sounds like a good idea).
That would add a gil sink in the game, make people in a hurry get their hands on what they want faster, and keep the Market Wards open for people like who like shopping. With that, we don't need an auction house, all you have to do is select which item you'd like and which listed price you'd like.

[Smokie23]

To lazy to travel to a ward to buy something you want, when your already sitting at the telepoint to any ward you want?? HAHAHA wow some people are frigging lazy. (probably gonna say some 'but players are in a hurry' now) I think players can spend 1.5 minutes to buy something from a retainer. Actual time it took me to buy hempen yarn from a retainer was 1 min 29 seconds (the majority of that time was trying to find 'hempen yarn' from the stupid search). So people are complaining that they cannot take 1.5 minutes out of their time to go buy an item they want....that is laziness not 'players are in a hurry' excuse. laziness is nothing to cater to.